This film was on British television in 1985. I was twelve years old a the time and it scared the hell out of me. The images of the buried woman's face covered in mud was too much for me. I could only manage the first ten minutes or so. I would love to know how the film ended. It has not been shown on t.v. since. Several of my friends ended up not staying to the end too. To this day we still talk about how horrible and scary it was.Nobody makes films like this anymore. I hope that this classic will one day be released on DVD. I've heard that this story was remade in the 1980's as a t.v. episode starring a young Drew Barrymore. I haven't seen this but I doubt if it is as frightening as the Olivia DeHaviland version.

Like many others, this is the one horror movie that really affected me when I saw it as a child. I used to have nightmares and get chills thinking about it. I remember really being frightened of the sounds coming out of the ground. Probably shouldn't have watched this type of movie at such a young age. As an adult, I have talked about this movie to friends who had never heard of it and told them that it would be great to find a copy so that they could see it. I'm sure it would still scare the heck out of me now. I would love to get it and invite a bunch of friends over and watch it in our theater room. The impact of this movie would be so much greater on a large screen versus the small television that we had in the 70's. It would be interesting to see how my teenagers would react to it and how they would compare it to the scary movies of today. Obviously, for me, this horror movie did what it intended to do! SCARE ME!!!

I saw this on TV way back in the early 70's and it truly frightened the living daylights out of me.Anyone from the industry reading this should surely consider a DVD release of this engrossing masterpiece

Laura, a woman in her late 50's just recovering from a sojourn in a mental hospital returns home to her estate in the temporary care of her son and his wife. A rather dubious couple to say the least. While walking in the grounds one morning she hears or thinks she hears groaning sounds emanating from the ground and tries to raise the alarm. Unsurprisingly when help arrives the voice is no longer evident and so the seeds of doubt are raised about her sanity. Caught this one on the box very early one morning and scared me enough to have a really lousy sleep. De Havilland is in her element here as the recovering patient and gives her character enough credibility to even make the viewer wonder as to her mental state. The black & white photography enhances the suspense of the whole story. Unfortunately not available on dvd or video.